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Originally Posted by Rainger99

It bothers me because I live in the area where there are no discount grocery stores. And not much of anything else. Other than in the new areas, most people in the Villages, are probably within 3-5 miles of either an Aldi or a Walmart. If I need something, I have to either shop at Publix or drive about 10 miles to get to the nearest Aldi. Also, they are putting a new Home Depot about a half mile from the Lowes and they are are putting in a new Target store up on 466A.

Grocery stores: Who has the best prices on the basics?

According to the survey, they bought six basic grocery items including whole milk, eggs, white bread, apples, bacon and orange juice. Aldi prices were the cheapest. Publix was the most expensive. If you shopped at Aldi, you would save $5.49 on those items.

People in the northern part of the Villages are complaining about how busy the traffic is up north. That is because they keep building new stores in the north and are not building much down south - so if we want to shop, we have to go up north and buy food and other items. If they build 8000 homes in Middleton, I would think that most of the workers would want a low priced grocery store without having to drive 10 miles or so to get to the Aldi in Trailwinds or the Walmart Neighborhood store in Colony.

People keep saying that the stores will come. The customers are already here.

The problem below 44 is employees. No one lives down there except retired people. Working age is not willing to commute 1 hour or more for minimum wage type job. Second problem is increased cost to transport goods to store down there with gas prices. Remember no gas stations to fill up trucks to get to another stop or return to base.